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18 Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.(A)

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39 (A)The second is like it:[a] You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:39 Jesus goes beyond the extent of the question put to him and joins to the greatest and the first commandment a second, that of love of neighbor, Lv 19:18; see note on Mt 19:18–19. This combination of the two commandments may already have been made in Judaism.

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely] “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(A)

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